The family of a South Korean man will receive compensation for his murder by government troops in a 1947 military crackdown that resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians, the Memorial Foundation of 228 said Saturday.

Park Soon-chong will be the first Korean, and only the second foreigner, to receive compensation from the Taiwan government for what is now called the "228 Incident," a brutal suppression of civilian resistance to Kuomintang (KMT) rule on Feb. 28, 1947, that marked the beginning of the White Terror period.

The Memorial Foundation of 228 announced on its website Saturday that it had completed the review process of the family's application for compensation and agreed to pay them 6 million New Taiwan dollars (about $195,000).